Its been
nearly a week now since the Rumble so I feel we can have a chat about
this one: was having Ronda Rousey turn up after the Women's Royal
Rumble a good idea?
I get why it
was done. On paper, having the undefeated Asuka win the Women's
Rumble is predictable and the WWE wanted something in their back
pocket so they'd go out on a surprise. That is actually sensible. On
paper. In practice having Asuka win was a fantastic moment in and of
itself that capped off a fantastic match.
It was a
moment that deserved to stand on its own especially as Ronda's debut
cut Asuka off from challenging one of the two Women's champions (a
moment that the male winner got and, my goodness, am I looking
forward to Nakamura/Styles at Wrestlemania!). It felt like Asuka's
moment was stepped on and she deserved that moment to herself,
especially as Rousey did so little: she glared at a bunch of people,
shook Stephanie McMahon's hand and then did some sign pointing which
is, of course, a venerable Royal Rumble tradition.
Also, having
mentioned Stephanie...
The WWE
Women's Division needs one of two things to happen: either to debut a
second female authority figure who is a face or for Stephanie to turn
face herself because as it stands Stephanie is a heel who cannot ever
get her comeuppance because whenever she's around women she's the
patron saint of women's wrestling and (correctly) WWE does not do
man-on-woman violence. Frankly, either Lita or Trish Stratus needs to
come in as Women's Commissioner or some such similar title so we
don't constantly have Stephanie flip-flopping between face and heel.
Don't get me wrong: she worked to puch the division and she deserved
her lap of honour for that but now some consistency needs to be
imposed.
Anyway,
that's me done on some random thoughts I've had in my head since
Sunday.
